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Fort Bliss once housed refugees, now set for largest ICE deportation center
The Department of Defense announced the awarding of a contract to establish and operate a detention center for single adults ...
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Feds plan to build nation’s biggest migrant detention center at Fort Bliss
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a contract to build and run a 5,000-bed tent camp at the Army base in El Paso.
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Former Ft. Bliss soldier sentenced to 20 years for murdering his wife
The jury sentenced Smith to 20 years in prison. The jury returned to the courtroom this afternoon and announced their verdict ...
Trump admin to open nation’s largest immigration detention center in Texas with $1.2B contract
The feds will now be able to hold up to 5,000 illegal immigrants at a time at Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, to meet ...
Defense OKs Fort Bliss site for 5,000-bed ICE deportation hub amid executive order push
A reported $1.26 billion contract has been awarded by the Trump administration to build the largest immigration detention ...
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Army awards contract for 5,000-capacity detention facility at Fort Bliss
The Army has awarded a contract for a 5,000-capacity migrant detention facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at ...
Texas could soon be home to biggest detention center in U.S.
The Trump administration has approved a $1.2 billion contract to build and operate what will be the largest detention center ...
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Civilian contractor dies in incident on Ft. Bliss
Update: The 1st Armored Division released the following statement on the incident that killed a civilian contractor at Ft.
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Civilian contractor dies at Fort Bliss
A civilian contractor died at Fort Bliss earlier this week, a spokesman for Fort Bliss confirmed. The incident happened at ...